From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 10 19:14:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A75ED16A420 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:14:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A69C443D49 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:13:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.3) id k1AJDMxU075790; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:13:22 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:13:22 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Andreas Davour Message-ID: <20060210191322.GD2090@dan.emsphone.com> References: <43EA9782.7060708@chrismaness.com> <43EA9DA4.4040206@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: Chris Maness , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tracking Security in Ports and Base System X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:14:01 -0000 In the last episode (Feb 10), Andreas Davour said: > On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Chuck Swiger wrote: > >Chris Maness wrote: > >>How should I set up cvsup to just track security updates for ports. > >>And would the best thing to do after I synced CVS, do portupgrade > >>-a so that everything selected gets rebuilt. > >> > >>What is the equivalent for the base system? > > > >The ports tree isn't branched; just get HEAD (aka ".") and you'll > >get the most current version with the most recent security updates. > >You might want to install security/portaudit, however, which is a > >very useful tool. > > Which makes me finally throw out a question I've been wondering > about. Is there no way of getting a specific tagged ports tree, if > you'd like to get a ports tree the way it looked when, say, > 4.6-RELEASE came out? Use a tag of RELEASE_4_6_0 . -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com